Klarinet Archive - Posting 000364.txt from 2005/11

From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?sarah=20elbaz?=" <sarah@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] beyond Rubank
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:53:18 -0500

GBK,

I don't think that I am the right person to grade Mendelssohn and there for I try to help my students to learn as much as possible from that poor piece. The second movement has a very nice melody and the first can be used to learn how to play a long tone, a cadentza, listen to piano and many things about style. I forgive Mendelssohn for being young.

Sarah

> -------Original Message-------
> From: klarinet <klarinet@-----.net>
> Subject: Re: [kl] beyond Rubank
> Sent: 26 Nov '05 17:38
>
> sarah elbaz said:
>
> "...The Mendelssohn Sonate..."
>
>
> The Mendelssohn Sonata is one of the worst pieces, by a major composer, ever
> written for the clarinet.
>
> As it didn't leave a lasting impression with the public, that may have much
> to do with the reason it was never published during Mendelssohn's lifetime.
>
> Funny thing....no one seemed to miss it.
>
> It's strictly a teenage work of some historical interest, but with little
> substantial musical value.
>
> I let my Junior High kids play it, but only as a curiosity to show the work
> of a composer who was their age when he wrote it.
>
> BTW - A good follow up to the Rubank Elementary method(before getting into
> more substantial clarinet methodology) is the Supplementary Studies for
> Clarinet (Endresen), also published by Rubank.
>
> Glenn B Kantor (GBK)
> Principal Clarinet - The Sound Symphony
> http://www.soundsymphony.org
>
>
>
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